The European understanding agreement is signed
EC reports concerned about the tense political situation in Albania: "The socialist government has approved national reconciliation"
EC reports concerned about the tense political situation in Albania: “The socialist government has approved national reconciliation” The European understanding agreement is signed Bundestag deputies meet with Berisha: “Nano is insulting us like Hitler” Berisha: “Such violations of the laws were committed only by Mussolini and Enver Hoxha” Parliament votes against arbitrariness
A new challenge to Albanians and to the institution of parliament was set yesterday by Prime Minister Nano's speech before parliament, after this institution refused to consider the laws proposed by the government. Prime Minister Nano called parliament a “switched-off engine” and declared that “he would even rent it.”
In yesterday's parliamentary session, the prime minister and left-wing deputies threatened to open a new government crisis, after the situation created during the vote against the decrees of the President of the Republic for the approval of unconstitutional laws. The prime minister and left-wing deputies referred to Thursday's vote as a “blocking” and “sabotaging” act against the government's activity.
In response to this pressure and these accusations against parliament and the President, the chairman of the PD parliamentary group, Sali Berisha, declared that the act of parliament overturning the decree cannot be considered a violation of the law, but precisely the act of approving laws in contradiction with the Constitution.
In his speech in parliament, Berisha described the government's initiative as an attempt to restore the practice of automatic approval of laws by parliament, denying the head of state's constitutional right to return laws for reconsideration. According to him, this practice would bring serious violations of the constitutional order and damage the balance between powers.
Berisha said that the government is exerting pressure on deputies and is trying to delegitimize the role of parliament, while he described the language used by the prime minister toward this institution as offensive and unacceptable in a democratic regime.
He warned that the attempt to impose the government's will on parliament through insults and political pressure creates a dangerous precedent for the country's democratic life.
The chairman of the PD, Sali Berisha, denounced the violation of constitutional laws by parliament, the creation of an extremely tense situation, and Prime Minister Nano's appearance before parliament in an irresponsible state. “In fact, it is very difficult to consider normal a person who allows himself to insult the parliament of his country. I can tell you that in the parliaments of free countries, a prime minister can be punished 10,000 times and defamed 10,000 times for the epithet he used against parliament. Parliament, comrades of the majority, is an institution that exists to protect a country's constitutional laws. Our parliament defended these laws with the act it carried out yesterday and, in fact, only with yesterday's act did it fully deserve to stand as the free parliament of a free country.
Enough, because it is clear that never before here had such words been heard and uttered by government people as in yesterday's parliament. This is too much.
It was in an unheard-of and unworthy Albanian sense. Albania can be governed without parliament but not without freedom. After this statement, it is clear that the aim of this government and of this prime minister is to create in Albania situations that make parliament a tool of the government. To rent parliament is an unacceptable, unworthy, and absolutely condemnable act.
Furthermore, Berisha said that only Hitler, Mussolini and Enver Hoxha had once come close to this practice.
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The chairman of the PD, Sali Berisha, denounces the violation of constitutional laws by parliament